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- Clinical Trial NCT04220892
Pilot Study of Pembrolizumab Combined With Pemetrexed or Abemaciclib for High Grade Glioma
Pilot Study of Pembrolizumab Combined With Pemetrexed or Abemaciclib for the Treatment of Patients With High Grade Glioma
The purpose of this study is to evaluate any preliminary evidence of anticancer activity of pembrolizumab combined with either pemetrexed or abemaciclib when used following surgery and before standard therapy with radiation and temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed high grade glioma.
Additional aims of the study are to:
- Find out the side effects (good and bad) of pembrolizumab combined with pemetrexed or abemaciclib;
- • Evaluate tumor characteristics by collecting brain tumor tissue samples.
- Measure the amount of pembrolizumab, pemetrexed, and/or abemaciclib that gets in the body by collecting blood and cerebrospinal fluid.
- Look at biomarkers (biochemical features that can be used to measure the progress of disease or the effects of a drug) in blood and cerebrospinal fluid if available.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
This is a prospective, open-label, multi-arm exploratory study of pembrolizumab in combination with pemetrexed or abemaciclib for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed high grade glioma. Patients having a clinically planned surgical procedure (biopsy or cytoreduction) for a suspected diagnosis of high grade glioma will be approached for participation in this study. Tumor tissue obtained from surgery will be used for histological diagnosis and clinical molecular profiling, and excess tumor tissue may be collected for potential correlative studies. A small sample of blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for research will also be collected.
Once a diagnosis of high grade glioma is confirmed, the patient will be allocated to either Treatment Arm 1 (pembrolizumab + pemetrexed), or Treatment Arm 2 (pembrolizumab + abemaciclib). Treatment will be started approximately 7-42 days following surgery once the patient has recovered from surgery. Routine clinical evaluations will be performed prior to treatment initiation and throughout treatment as clinically indicated. Radiographic brain imaging will be performed approximately 21-42 after treatment initiation and then routinely for medical management. Tumor response will be assessed according to immunotherapy Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (iRANO) Working Group criteria.
Treatment may continue until the patient experiences unacceptable toxicity or clear disease progression. The determination of whether to stop treatment due to disease progression will be based on the investigator's evaluation of the patient's clinical and radiographic condition, taking into consideration the interpretation of localized inflammatory responses that can mimic radiographic features of tumor progress. Patients discontinuing treatment will be directed by their treating physician to either receive a different treatment regimen (e.g., standard radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy) or undergo a clinically-indicated cytoreductive surgery. If another treatment is started, clinical evaluations and response assessments will continue as clinically-indicated and blood and CSF will be collected after the first month, then every three months.
Study Type
Phase
- Early Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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California
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Santa Monica, California, United States, 90404
- John Wayne Cancer Institute
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria for ALL Arms:
- Participant or their legal representative has the ability to provide informed consent.
- Participant has the willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
Participant is being evaluated for a potential, or known, diagnosis of high grade glioma.
Note:Participant must have a diagnosis of high grade (WHO Grade III or IV) glioma following brain surgery to proceed with study treatment.
- Participant is a candidate for brain surgery.
- Participant is male or female, ≥ 18 years of age.
- Participant has a Karnofsky Performance Status ≥ 60%.
Participant has adequate organ function:
- ANC at least 1.5 x 10^9/L or greater.
- Platelets at least 100 x 10^9/L or greater.
- Hemoglobin at least 8 g/dL or greater.
- Total bilirubin 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or lower.
- ALT and AST 3 x ULN or lower.
- Serum creatinine 1.5 x ULN or lower.
Additional Inclusion Criteria for Arm 1 only:
- Participant has the ability to interrupt nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAIDS) 2 days before (5 days for long-acting NSAIDs), the day of, and 2 days following administration of Pemetrexed.
- Participant has the ability to take folic acid, Vitamin B12, and dexamethasone according to protocol.
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 45 mL/min (calculated using standard Cockcroft and Gault formula).
Additional Inclusion Criteria for Arm 1 only:
1. Participant is able to swallow oral medications.
Exclusion Criteria for ALL Arms:
- Participant has received prior anti-cancer treatment for high-grade glioma.
- Participant has a diagnosis of immunodeficiency or active autoimmune disease.
- Participant is receiving chronic systemic steroid therapy in dosing exceeding 8 mg daily of dexamethasone equivalent or any other form of immunosuppressive therapy within 7 days prior to the first dose of study drug. This is assessed after surgery, prior to starting drug treatment.
- Participant has received a live vaccine within 28 days prior to the first dose of study agent. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to measles, mumps, rubella, varicella/zoster (chicken pox), yellow fever, rabies, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), typhoid vaccine, and intranasal influenza vaccines (e.g., FluMist®).
Participant has a severe or uncontrolled medical disorder that would, in the investigator's opinion, impair ability to receive study intervention, including, but not limited to:
- Uncontrolled diabetes;
- Renal disease that requires dialysis;
- Pulmonary disorder requiring supplemental oxygen to keep saturation >95% and the situation is not expected to resolve within 2 weeks;
- Severe dyspnea at rest or requiring oxygen therapy;
- Interstitial lung disease;
- History of major surgical resection involving the stomach or small bowel;
- Preexisting Crohn's disease;
- Ulcerative colitis;
- Uncontrolled vasculitis and/or disease with known vasculitis;
- Preexisting chronic condition resulting in baseline Grade 2 or higher diarrhea;
- Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Participant has an active bacterial infection requiring intravenous antibiotics at time of initiating study treatment, fungal infection, or detectable viral infection (such as known human immunodeficiency virus positivity or with known active hepatitis B or C).
Participant has a personal history or presence of any of the following cardiovascular conditions:
- Syncope of cardiovascular etiology;
- Ventricular arrhythmia of pathological origin (including, but not limited to, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation);
- Myocardial infraction within 6 months of investigational product administration;
- Unstable angina;
- Sudden cardiac arrest;
- Congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association classification ≥ 3).
- Participant is a female of childbearing potential who is pregnant or nursing.
Additional Exclusion Criteria for Arm 1 only:
- Participant has third space fluid which cannot be controlled by drainage. For patients who develop or have baseline clinically significant pleural or peritoneal effusions (on the basis of symptoms or clinical examination) before or during initiation of pemetrexed therapy, consideration should be given to draining the effusion prior to dosing. However, if, in the investigator's opinion, the effusion represents progression of disease, the patient should be discontinued from study therapy.
- Transaminases greater than 3.0 x ULN, except in presence of known hepatic metastasis, wherein may be up to 5 x ULN.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Pembrolizumab plus Pemetrexed
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200 mg intravenous (IV) every 3 weeks
Other Names:
900 mg/m^2 IV every 3 weeks.
Supportive medications of ibuprofen, folic acid, vitamin B12, and dexamethasone.
Other Names:
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Experimental: Pembrolizumab plus Abemaciclib
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200 mg intravenous (IV) every 3 weeks
Other Names:
150 mg twice a day, by mouth.
Other Names:
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Tumor response rates
Time Frame: one year
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Evidence of anti-tumor activity as measured according to immunotherapy Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (iRANO) criteria.
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one year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Toxicity assessed according to the NCI Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), version 4.03.
Time Frame: one year
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Proportion of patients experiencing adverse events
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one year
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Progression free survival (PFS)
Time Frame: one year
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The duration of time from start of treatment until objective tumor progression or death.
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one year
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Overall survival (OS)
Time Frame: four years
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The duration of time from start of treatment to death.
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four years
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Levels of immunotherapeutic agents in specimens
Time Frame: approximately 3 months
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Immunotherapeutic drug levels in specimens.
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approximately 3 months
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Change in gene signature of tumor tissue after treatment
Time Frame: approximately 6 months to 2 years
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Comparison of genetic analysis of tumor tissue collected before and after study treatment.
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approximately 6 months to 2 years
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Jose A Carrillo, MD, Saint John's Cancer Institute
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start (Anticipated)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
Study Completion (Anticipated)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Actual)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- Neoplasms by Histologic Type
- Neoplasms
- Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
- Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
- Neuroectodermal Tumors
- Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
- Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
- Glioma
- Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
- Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Antineoplastic Agents
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological
- Folic Acid Antagonists
- Pembrolizumab
- Pemetrexed
Other Study ID Numbers
- JWCI-18-0702 (I3Y-US-I011)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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